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sometimes by seeds. The suckers should be taken off in the autumn 

 or spring, with root-fibres to them, and be planted out either in 

 nursery-rows, to remain a year or two, or where they are lo remain. 

 Tli(> layers may be made from the young pliant shoots, and be laid 

 down in th(> autunm, in the usual way, when in the aulinnu following 

 they may be taken off and planted out, as in the suckers. The first 

 sort may likewise be raised from seeds sown in a bed of connnon 

 earth, in the autumn or spring, keeping the i)lants clean when they 

 come up. They afford variety in the large borders and other parts 

 of shrubberies. 



2. SARKACENA FLAVA. 



\ ELLO W S A IIR ACEN A . 



This genus contains plants of the herbaceous perennial kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Po/ijandrid Monogi/tiia, and ranks 

 in the natural order of Succu/ciita. 



'J'he characters are: that the calyx is a double perianth; losver 

 three-leaved : leaflets ovate, very small, deciduous ; upper five- 

 leaved; leaflets subovate, very large, coloured, deciduous: the corolla 

 has five ovate petals, bent in, covering the stamens: claws ovate- 

 oblong, straight: the stamina have numerous small filaments: anthers 

 simple: the pislillum is a roundish germ : style cylindrical, very 

 short: stigma clypeate, peltate, five-cornered, covering the stamens, 

 permanent: the pcricarpium is a roundish five-celled capsule: the. 

 seeds numerous, roundish, acuminate, small. 



The species are: 1. S. jiava, Y(>llow Side-saddle Flower; 2. 5. 

 purpurea, Purj)le Side saddle Flower. 



The first has the leaves near three feet high, small at the bottom, 

 but widening gradually lo the top; they arc hollow, and arched over 



